Stakeholders Gather for the First Talanoa Dialogue in India
The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC) Government of India and ICLEI South Asia jointly organised the Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogue workshop in New Delhi. The one-day workshop brought together stakeholders from governments, academia, international community, private sector and civil society with an aim to strengthen aspects of multi-level governance to enable […]
The CapaCITIES Project Cities Participate in Local Renewables Conference 2018
As part of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation supported CapaCITIES project, Siliguri, Rajkot, Coimbatore and Udaipur – project cities – participated in the Local Renewables Conference 2018 in Freiburg, Germany. A session dedicated to the project was organised in the conference which emphasised on discussing initiatives focussing on renewable energy and circular economy […]
The EcoLogistics – Low Caron Freight for Sustainable cities kicks off in India
The national kick-off workshop for the project “EcoLogistics – Low Caron Freight for Sustainable cities” was organised on the 31st of October in New Delhi. The project aims to prioritise strategies that will focus on promoting the transportation of goods with minimised impacts on air quality, noise, health, fatalities & injuries, traffic congestion and reduced […]
Workshop Discusses Gender Inclusive Framework under CDKN Programme
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) workshop was organised under the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) programme in London from the 9th-11th of October, 2018. The event brought together the four alliance partners of CDKN: ICLEI South Asia, Fundacion Futuro LatinoAmericano (FFLA), SouthSouthNorth (SSN) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) to discuss and agree on […]
Partners training program on Decision Support Tool
A training program was conducted by Athena Infonomics on the 8th of October, 2018 in Chennai for IAdapt Project Partners on the Decision Support Tool (DST) being developed under the IDRC supported IAdapt project to facilitate and support local governments and catchment managers to make climate informed decision for sustainable water management. The tool will […]
Exposure Visit for Solapur Officials to Nagpur Under the IAdapt Project
ICLEI – South Asia organised an exposure visit for the officials of Solapur Municipal Corporation (SMC) to Nagpur city under the project on Integrated Rural Urban Water Management for Climate Based Adaptations in Indian Cities (IAdapt) supported by IDRC, Canada. The project is being implemented in two cities – Solapur and Vijaywada and focusses on […]
First Project Steering Committee Meeting in Delhi
With support from Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMU) through the International Climate Initiative (IKI), the INTERACT-Bio: Integrated sub-national action for Biodiversity-Supporting Implementation of National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan project is being implemented in the cities of Kochi, Panaji and Mangalore. The project is supported by the Ministry […]
Sensitisation Workshop on Environmental Conservation and Climate Change for Delhi Schools
With support from Department of Environment, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, a Sensitisation Workshop on Environmental Conservation and Climate Change was organised for students and teachers from over 100 schools in Delhi. The workshop aimed at making the students aware of the significance of biodiversity and natural resources and how climate change is […]
Siliguri Becomes the First City to Adopt Climate Resilient City Action Plan
The Climate Resilient City Action Plan (CRCAP), developed for the city of Siliguri through Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) supported CapaCITIES project, was deliberated upon in a stakeholder consultation on the 14th of September 2018. Following the same, the plan was tabled in the Member Mayor in Council Meeting, where it was accepted. […]
ICLEI South Asia Provides Technical Assistance to Support Low Carbon Mobility Strategies in Delhi
ICLEI South Asia, with support from Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, aims to provide technical support to Delhi and develop strategies for improving its mobility sector for a period of one year. The project team will focus to assist the city in improving and strengthening the existing public transport with a special focus on low carbon […]